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IBM Storage® Protect Plus provides reports that display the protection status of your resources. By viewing the reports and taking any necessary action, you can help to ensure that your data is protected through user-defined recovery point objective parameters.

To view protection reports, complete the following steps:

In the navigation panel, click Reports and Logs > Reports.
Click on the Reports tab.
Select Protection in the Filter by category drop-down menu.
Run the report by clicking the Run Report () icon beside the selected report.

The following reports are available:

Container Persistent Volume Backup History report: The Container Persistent Volume Backup History report displays the history of persistent container volume back jobs. Use the report options to filter by Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) type and to select specific PVCs to display. The report can be further filtered by failed jobs or successful jobs in the Status field and by specific service level agreement (SLA) policies using the SLA Policy field. Set an integer value in the Backup History for Past Number of Days field to show the backup history for a specified number of days.

Database Backup History report: Run the Database Backup History report to review the protection history of specific databases. To run the report, at least one database must be specified in the Databases option. You can select multiple databases. Use the report options to filter Status by failed or successful jobs. The report can be further filtered by specific service level agreement (SLA) policies using the SLA Policy field. An integer value can be specified for the Backup History for Past Number of Days field to limit results.; In the detail view of the report, expand an associated job to view further job details, such as the reason why a job failed or the size of a successful backup. The Search box may be used to further filter report results.

Database SLA Policy RPO Compliance report

Use the report options to filter by Application Type and to select a specific Application Server to display. The report can be further filtered by databases that are in compliance or not in compliance with the defined RPO through the Display Databases That Are field, or by Protection Type, including data that was backed up to vSnap, using replication, using object storage copy, or using archive.

The Database SLA Policy RPO Compliance report displays databases in relation to recovery point objectives as defined in SLA policies. The quick view displays a pie chart of a count of backups to vSnap that are in compliance and those that are not in compliance. The summary view displays the SLA policy, the SLA schedule, the number of backups to vSnap that are in compliance and the number that are not in compliance, and the replications that are in compliance and not in compliance. Also displayed are databases not in compliance for the protection types which includes the database names, application servers, application types, the last successful protection time, and the out of compliance reason.

File System Backup History report: Run the File System Backup History report to review the protection history of specific file systems. To run the report, at least one server must be specified in the Server option and one file system must be selected for the File System option. Use the report options to filter Status by failed or successful jobs. The report can be further filtered by specific service level agreement (SLA) policies using the SLA Policy field. The default setting for all four options is All. An integer value can be specified for the Backup History for Past Number of Days field to limit results.; Report properties displays the creation date and the account that was used to generate the report. Also included are the report filters used when the report was generated. In the detail view of the report, the file system is listed with the server and the total number of runs. The SLA policy, time of the job, and that status of the job is displayed. The information can be expanded of an associated job to view further job details, such as the reason why a job failed and the size of a successful backup. The Search box may be used to further filter report results.

File System SLA Policy RPO Compliance report

Use the report options to select a specific Server to display. The report can be further filtered by Protection Type, including data that was backed up to vSnap, using replication, using object storage copy, or using archive. The default setting for these two filters is All. File systems that are in compliance or not in compliance with the defined RPO can be filtered through the Display File Systems That Are field.

The File System SLA Policy RPO Compliance report displays file systems in relation to recovery point objectives as defined in SLA policies. Report properties display the creation date and the account that was used to generate the report. Also included are the report filters used when the report was generated. The quick view displays a pie chart of a count of backups to vSnap that are in compliance and those backups that are not in compliance. The summary view displays the SLA policy, the SLA schedule, the number of backups to vSnap and jobs using replication. Non-compliant file system SLA policy jobs are included if the not in compliance filter is selected. Information that is displayed are non-compliant SLA jobs using: backup to vSnap, replication, object storage copy, and archive. For non-compliant file system SLA policy jobs, the SLA policy and SLA schedule is listed with each file system, server, the last successful protection time, and the out of compliance reason.

Microsoft™ 365 Backup History report: Run the Microsoft 365 Backup History report to review the protection history for specific tenants. To run the report, specify at least one tenant in the Tenants filter. To filter reports based on a particular jobs, specify a value in the Status field. Reports can be further filtered based on specific service level agreement (SLA) policies by specifying a value in the SLA Policy field. The default setting for all four options is All. To limit the report to a specified number of days, enter an integer in the Backup History for Past Number of Days field.; Report properties list the creation date and the account that was used to generate the report. Also included are the filters that were used to generate the report. In the detail view of the report, the file system is listed with the server and the total number of runs. The SLA policy, the job run time, and the job status are displayed. You can expand the report to view further details, such as the reason why a job failed and the size of a successful backup. The Search box can be used to further filter report results.

Microsoft 365 SLA Policy RPO Compliance report

The Microsoft 365 SLA Policy RPO Compliance report displays tenants that meet or do not meet recovery point objectives (RPOs) as defined in SLA policies. Report properties display the creation date and the account that was used to generate the report. Report properties also include any filters that were applied.

Use the report options to select a specific tenant for the report. The report can be filtered by specifying a value in the Protection Type field. For example, you can include data that was backed up to a vSnap server, was replicated, was copied to IBM Storage Protect, or was archived. You can filter the report to show either policy settings.

The Quick View displays pie charts of the backup copies written to the vSnap server and show the levels of compliance and noncompliance. The Summary View displays the SLA policy, the SLA schedule, the number of backup operations to the vSnap server, and the number of replication jobs. Tenants that are not in compliance are listed with the number of applications that are affected. The last successful backup is listed with the reason why the tenant is not compliant.

Protected and Unprotected Databases report: Run the Protected and Unprotected Databases report to view the protection status of your databases. The report displays the total number of databases added to the IBM Storage Protect Plus inventory before backup jobs are started. Use the report options to filter by Application Type, Application Server, and Application Server Typeto display. To exclude databases that are protected through hypervisor-based backup jobs, select Hide Databases Protected as part of Hypervisor Backup. To exclude unprotected databases in the report, select Hide Unprotected Databases.; The summary view displays an overview of your application server protection status, including the number of unprotected and protected databases, as well as the front end capacity of the protected databases. The front end capacity is the used capacity of a database. The detail view is displayed for each database type and provides further information including database names, application server, and hosting VM. The detail view also provides this information about unprotected databases in the detail view - unprotected databases section. The Search box may be used to further filter report results.

Protected and Unprotected File Systems report: Run the Protected and Unprotected File Systems report to view the protection status of your file systems. The report displays both the protected and unprotected file systems added to the IBM Storage Protect Plus inventory before backup jobs are started. Use the report options to filter by Server, Operating System Type, and File System Type to display. To exclude file systems that are protected through hypervisor-based backup jobs, select Hide File Systems protected as part of Hypervisor Backup. To exclude unprotected file systems in the report, select Hide Unprotected File Systems.; Report properties displays the creation date and the account that was used to generate the report. Also included are the report filters used when the report was generated. Summary view displays the protection status of registered file systems. Two detailed views are displayed, one for protected file systems and the other for unprotected file systems. Information is organized by File System, Path, File System Type, OS Type, and Server with the total number of protected and unprotected file systems displayed. The Search box may be used to further filter report results.

Protected and Unprotected Microsoft Office Users report: Run the Protected and Unprotected Microsoft Office Users report to view the protection status of the user accounts in your Microsoft 365 tenants. The report displays both the protected and unprotected Microsoft 365 tenants that were added to the IBM Storage Protect Plus inventory before the backup jobs ran. To filter a report based on tenants or applications, specify values in the Tenants or Application fields. To exclude unprotected accounts from the report, select Hide Unprotected Accounts.; If you decide to view all accounts, the report includes two areas, one for protected user accounts and the other for unprotected user accounts.; Within each of these sections, depending on whether you filtered results by application, there is a subsection for OneDrive and another for Outlook. For each of these applications, tenant proxies with details of each user account at that proxy site are listed.; You can use the Search option to locate information in the report.

Protected and Unprotected VMs report: Run the Protected and Unprotected VMs report to view the protection status of your virtual machines. The report displays the total number of virtual machines added to the IBM Storage Protect Plus inventory before backup jobs are started.; Use the report options to filter by Hypervisor Type and to select specific Hypervisor/Accounts to display. To exclude unprotected virtual machines in the report, select Hide Unprotected VMs. To exclude virtual machines that are not backed up to secondary backup storage, select Show only the VMs with Object Storage Copy Backups. Tags may also be used to filter reports.; The protected VMs displays an overview of your protected virtual machines, including the total number of VMs protected, the VM name, the hypervisor/account, type of hypervisor, location, and the managed capacity. The managed capacity is the used capacity of a virtual machine. The unprotected VMs provides the same information for virtual machines that are not protected. The Search box may be used to further filter report results.

VM Backup History report: Run the VM Backup History report to review the protection history of specific virtual machines. To run the report, at least one virtual machine must be specified in the VMs option. You can select multiple virtual machine names. Use the report options to filter Status by failed or successful jobs. The report can be further filtered by specific service level agreement (SLA) policies using the SLA Policy field. An integer may be specified for the Backup History for Past Number of Days field to limit results and Tags may also be used to filter the report.; The detail view displays the SLA policy used listed under the VM, account, and total number of runs. Information for each run can be expanded to list the backup data size. The protection time, status, and the backup storage used is also displayed. The Search box may be used to further filter report results.

VM SLA Policy RPO Compliance report: Use the report options to filter by Type, Hypervisor/Account, the Protection Typewhich includes data that was backed up to vSnap, using replication, using object storage copy, using archive or using snapshot, and to display virtual machines that are in compliance or not in compliance with the defined RPO through the Display VMs That Are field. There is also a filter for Tags.; The VM SLA Policy RPO Compliance report displays virtual machines in relation to recovery point objectives as defined in SLA policies. The quick view displays a pie chart of a count of backups to vSnap that are in compliance and those that are not in compliance. Also is a pie chart of snapshots that are in compliance and those that are not in compliance. A summary view displays the SLA policy used, the SLA schedule, the ratio of backups to vSnap for in compliance and not in compliance and the snapshot ratio of in compliance and not in compliance. Also displayed are VMs not in compliance view for each protection type. The Search box may be used to further filter report results.